From November 1990 to December 2005, Jill Osciecki was a sales representative for Amgen , mostly in the Midwestern US, where she promoted the Aranesp medicine that is used to treat anemia caused by chemotherapy and chronic kidney disease. However, she was one of a handful of Amgen reps who eventually chafed at allegedly illegal marketing tactics that have now become a familiar refrain in the lore of pharmaceutical marketing over the past two decades.